A contemporary equivalent of Jonathan Swift might be

a. a newspaper reporter.

b. a political speechwriter.

c. a writer for The Daily Show.

d. a television news anchor.

The correct answer is letter B. He would be political speechwriter because most of his works involved satirical essays and he was also a political pamphleteer. Most of his essays are known but his poets are not. His most remembered work is Gulliver's Travels.

A contemporary equivalent of Jonathan Swift might be a writer for the Daily show. Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish essayist, poet, cleric, satirist, political pamphleteer. He became the Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral.